[This may, of course, be taken' to support the view that action even fof that Umited kind should have been deferred, but the: urgency of the Cathedral' School's need, the dimeulty of meeting it in the normal course and the opportunity offered for inviting a special community. effort at the times of the King's Coronation evidently moved the three influential bodies res ponsible for the appeal. It is true they do. not pretend to cover representation of the whole.community, They cannot, however, be denied the right to claim a definite Teadership which was appropriately asserted on the occasion. In a sense the Cathedral School, apart from the fact that it isthe only British-controlled school for British boys, has the status accruing to the grammar school of a small town in England. Such a school, albeit closely associated by. its foundation with the Church England, is looked upon as the school of the community regardless of social or religious divisions. Frequently its board of governors includes other than Church of Eng-Jand notabilities and round it the local patriotism of the town rallies '<whether Protestant, Roman Catholic or Jewish. The. conditions of the Lester Trust may or may not make it impossible at the moment, at all events, for the parallel to be exactly maintained. There is reason, however, to imagine that the Cathedral School, if given fair opportunity and assured of general support from the community, cannot in the future A the place which the grammar school so worthily lls in the English educational. system to-day. Circumstances prevent explicit dogmatism on that point just "now. The School Management Committee has to deal with "things as they are. In the event, if it be shown that the: community as a whole has put itself thoroughly behind the School, the extension of its scope in ministering to the education of British boys may be confidently' expected. That, in fact, is a strong argument for support of the present appeal, 'The commemoration of the Coronation is an object which has had general support.' Whatever choice had been made to give it effect it would have been exceed ingly difficult to ensure that all classes and sections of the community would directly benefit, The ornamental device of a statue would be rejected by practical considerations. A hospital bed might have been accepted but, there again, the charge of banality might "have been made. The promoters of the appeal' were attracted, and considered that the community would be attracted, by concentration on the King's own Gesire to ensure a healthy open-air Ufe for his young subjects. No cavilling at that intention can be is—suggested; the only question is whether the community as '2 whole can be fairly asked to give financial support to a scheme which, admittedly in its present, stage, seems to confer benefits on limited. section of British res-idants. The essence of comminal effort is solidarity. If there be an institution which performs useful service for the community' even ina restricted degree—it
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